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The film opens in an unnamed African town where Shandurai (Thandiwe Newton) watches with distress as a school teacher is taken away by police. In Rome, Shandurai is now a housemaid for Jason Kinsky (David Thewlis), an eccentric English pianist and composer, and is also a promising medical student.
Besieged: Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. With Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria, John C. Ojwang. While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.
- (5.3K)
- Drama, Romance
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- 1999-02-05
Mild-mannered composer Jason Kinsky (David Thewlis) hires Shandurai (Thandie Newton), a medical student and recent immigrant from Africa, to work as a part-time maid in his home. As the...
- (49)
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- R
- Thandiwe Newton
Sep 10, 2012 · Shandurai (Newton), an African refugee in Rome, pays her way through medical school as a live-in cleaner for English pianist and composer Kinsky (Thewlis). Shy and timid, he woos her with gifts...
When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo.
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- 93 min
- 4
When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room...
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Jun 11, 1999 · Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Besieged” is a movie about whether two people with nothing in common, who have no meaningful conversations, will have sex–even if that means dismissing everything we have learned about the woman. It is also about whether we will see her breasts.
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